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Kenneth Jones vs. US Postal Service, illustrates why postal employees should think twice before appealing their discipline to the Merit Systems Protection Board.

New Book: Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier

Postal Worker Fired After Second Violation of USPS Zero Tolerance Policy

Bush Plan Would Cut Tax-Free Employer-Provided Health Insurance

MSPB Overturns Postal Worker’s Removal for $45,000 Stamp Stock Shortage

Postage Rate Hike in 2008?

Postal Service: ‘Intelligent Mail’ Fully Operational By 2009

Video: Signed, Sealed and Delivered- Labor Struggle in the Post Office

USPS: New Postal Law-The Financial Impact

Can Bush Open Mail Without Warrant?

Former Postal Worker Charged in FEHB Scheme to Defraud USPS and NALC

Un-Merry Christmas
Postal Service Terminates Disabled Iraq War Veteran for Unacceptable Attendance

Letter to the Editor - Mismanagement at Royal Oak Carrier Unit

FedEx and DOT at Stalemate in Dispute Over Disclosure of Postal Contract Data -

USPS, APWU Reach $5.3 Million Agreement in Anthrax Travel Grievance

Postal Worker Fired for Refusing to Work on DBCS Machine

Postal Nurse Charged With Defrauding USPS

Five-Year Postal Employees Stats At a Glance

Big Win For APWU in MS-47 Maintenance Case - "Custodial Jobs Protected"

July 12, 2008

Burrus: Employees Would Be Best Served by Postponing Early-Out Decisions - In light of the announcement that the Postal Service has received approval to offer Voluntary Early Retirement to employees in the Clerk Craft and the Mail Handler Craft, as well as to some supervisory employees, many APWU members are beginning to wonder about their options. The union has been informed that the Postal Service expects a deficit of approximately $1.4 billion in the current fiscal year. We also can expect that if a sufficient number of employees do not accept the early-out offer, the Postal Service will still face a significant deficit, and will still be forced to find ways to reduce the workforce. |

USPS Wants Quality Over Quantity
"After years of managing volume, the U.S. Postal Service wants to instead manage mail quality, according to Hamilton Davison, executive director of the American Catalog Mailers Association. "The post office is not just making sure that mailers get stuff delivered, it's making sure that the mail is really wanted," Davison said during a session Thursday at the MeritDirect Business Mailers Co-op and Conference. Davison's information stems from discussions with Postmaster General John E. Potter during ACMA's National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum last month. Potter suggested then that the USPS may soon become a much smaller organization that would not longer be handling more than 200 billion pieces a year, including 50 billion flats." |

Three Mailman Caught Smoking Marijuana On Job

"A postal pot bust. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office ticketed three postmen, for smoking marijuana on the job. It's the culmination of a two week investigation. All long time employees of the Omaha Post Office. We're told all three have been put on administrative leave. The mailman marijuana investigation started when the office of the Inspector General of the United States Post Office became suspicious of a few employees." |

eNAPUS: Commission Completes Hearings On Universal Service – Report Next

- APWU to PRC: ‘Burden of Proof’ Is on Those Pushing for Change

- Young Defends Universal Service before PRC (PDF) |

Privatize postal service? Sure, if you want higher prices and less delivery |

TX: Alvin postal carrier arrested

July 11, 2008

Denver Postal Workers Tired of Violence in Workplace

About 50 letter carriers walked the picket line Thursday to get their message out." We demand a safe and harmonious workplace, that's our right," said Mike Williams, president of the local Branch 47 of the National Association of Letter Carriers. “Management is constantly harassing, intimidating, finger pointing, and bullying letter carriers on the workroom floor on a daily basis.” |Comments (67)

NALC: Young Urges Congress to Reject Study for 5-Day Delivery

President Young is urging Congress to reject a proposal by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) to order USPS to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of adopting a five-day delivery week. In a letter sent to top congressional leaders, Young notes that a similar yet more comprehensive study of universal service is already underway, as mandated by the 2006 postal reform law. “Saddling the Postal Service with the responsibility for conducting or participating in a duplicative study of Saturday delivery is unnecessary and wasteful,” Young said. Young's Letter | amendment |Comments (50)

84-year-old clocks out as most experienced letter carrier in America - Bob Slama has been on his Southeast Cape Coral mail route for 27 years, reporting as scheduled every day to serve his customers. At age 84, Slama is proud of the fact that he has never called in sick a day of his career. He has never even clocked in late. More: Nation’s oldest postal carrier, retires | 85-Year- Old Postal Worker Celebrates 60 years of service - USPS News Link- Jerrell Evans started working at Cleveland's West Park Station in 1948. He hasn’t regretted it. Evans, who will be 85 in November, served in the Navy during WWII, including a stint in the Philippines. Evans said, "I have no plans to retire.” |Comments (72)